Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories

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As we approach the centennial of the passage of women’s suffrage in 1920, there has been a recent burst of activism among American women. Women are running for political office in record numbers. Women are organizing and taking to the streets to demand change. Women are grappling with inclusion and intersectionality.

While some of this activity may have been a response to the 2016 presidential elections, its roots lie deep in 20th-century history — a history richly preservedin Harvard’s Schlesinger Library building on the library’s 75th Anniversary Exhibit.

This course exemplifies the importance of archives in themaking of history. Professors Laurel Ulrich and Jane Kamensky, along with colleagues from across Harvard University and beyond, show how women in the 20th-century United States pushed boundaries, fought for new rights, and challenged contemporary notions of what women could and should do.

Through the exploration of ten iconic objects from the Schlesinger collection, they demonstrate how women created change by embracing education, adopting new technologies, and creating innovative works of art; pushing against discrimination and stepping into new roles in public and in private.

المدربين

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is the author of Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Early New England, 1650-1750 (1982) and A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812(1990) which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 and became the basis of a PBS documentary. In The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Making of an American Myth (2001), she has incorporated museum-based research as well as more traditional archival work. Her most recent book is Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007). Her major fields of interest are early American social history, women's history, and material culture.

Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky is a historian of the Atlantic world and the United States, with particular interests in the histories of family, culture, and everyday life. At Harvard, she serves as Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and as the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her courses explore subjects ranging from the American Revolution to the feminist battle over pornography in the 1970s and 1980s, and her students often work closely with the collections of the Schlesinger Library. Her most recent book, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (2016), won four prizes, including the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History of the New-York Historical Society and the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. Her next project is a history of the sexual revolution as seen through the life of Candida Royalle, whose remarkable archive was acquired by the Schlesinger Library.